Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base Bankruptcy Petitions, 2003 (ICPSR 4252)
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Federal Judicial Center
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04252.v1
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The purpose of this data collection is to provide an official public record of the business of the federal bankruptcy courts. The data include all petitions filed under the Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Courts on or after October 1, 1993, and any petitions filed before October 1, 1993, that were still pending on that date. The records are organized according to the fiscal year of termination with cases still pending at the end included in a separate pending dataset. The records in Part 1, Terminations Data, 2003, include cases that terminated in the year 2003. Part 2, Pending Data, 2003, contains cases still pending in the year 2003. For the bankruptcy data, the unit of analysis is a single case.
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All federal court cases in the United States in 2003.
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computerized court records, and administrative records
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2005-06-09
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- Federal Judicial Center. Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base Bankruptcy Petitions, 2003. ICPSR04252-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-04-13. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04252.v1
2011-04-13 All parts are being moved to restricted access and will be available only using the restricted access procedures.
2006-03-30 File CB04252.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
2005-06-09 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Performed consistency checks.
- Standardized missing values.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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